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2025 Which Way Challenge (CWWC): Which ways on a cloudy or stormy day

Welcome back to another Which Way Challenge (CWWC). This week I have chosen Which ways on a cloudy or stormy day for this week’s theme. The Which Way can be any path, sidewalk, trail, or road as long as the Which Way is clearly discernible. For further information regarding the Which Way Challenge (CWWC) feel free to check out the home page here.

Here are my Which Ways entries:

Whether traveling by car or hiking on foot there are times we run across storms and/or clouds in our pathways/roadways. These are a few examples of what we have endured in our adventures.

*US 321*
*Blowing Rock, NC*
*October 9, 2017*

NC State Hwy 74
Charlotte, NC
*September 16, 2024*

*W. Wilkinson Blvd*
*Cramerton, NC*
*September 26, 2024*

Thank you to those who have participated and supported the Which Ways Challenge. I appreciate y’all sharing your Which Ways with us.

For an idea of other’s Which Ways from this past week’s challenge, be sure to click on the following links below.

TGeriatrix’s From Spain to Portugal

Brian’s Arrows (point the way)

Dawn’s Which Way: Down Dunlap Creek

Pepper’s Off to an Adventure

Sandy’s A Path Through Luscious Color

Deb’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC)-Which ways on a cloudy or stormy day

Ragtag Daily Prompt (RDP): Wednesday-Downpour

Camera: Apple iPhones 7 Plus; 14 Pro Max; and 16 Pro Max

God Bless. Get Outdoors. Take a Hike/Walk. Enjoy Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Note: Next week we will be looking at Any Which Ways with People.

2025 Skywatch Friday/Weekend Sky —02 August

The Black Clouds rolling in and the winds kicking up before the rain and thunderstorms arrive.

Cloudscapes & Wind Activity
seen from the Backyard

Skywatch from the Front Porch of the thunderstorm prior to the rain pouring down upon the land.

***Early Evening Cloudscapes***
***alert pending Thunderstorms***

Lightening and Raining has begun …

And just as quickly it ended to begin again in another hour or so.

Skywatch Friday

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

Weekend Sky

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Enjoy your weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Skywatch Friday/Weekend Sky —28 July

*Back Porch View*
*Looking Straight Ahead*

Skywatch Friday

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

Weekend Sky

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Enjoy your weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Skywatch Friday/Weekend Sky —13/14 June

My Sky photos this week are actually from Tuesday evening. We had some colourful clouds prior to the moon rising.

I tried staying awake until the moon was at full illumination on Wednesday morning around 3:44am EST, but failed miserably. The shots of the moon I did manage to capture were taken at 9:26pm on Tuesday evening. I was hoping to catch June’s full strawberry moon when it would be its brightest. This was the best I could do however, since I was unable to be awake at such an early hour .

Skywatch Friday

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

Weekend Sky

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Enjoy your weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Skywatch Friday/Weekend Sky — 31 May

Evening Cloudy Skies

First Four from Front Yard
Last Three from Backyard

Skywatch Friday

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

Weekend Sky

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Sky watching can be dramatic, amazing to watch the Sun Rise in the mornings. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Monochrome Madness: Free Week — Cloudy Skies

As I was sitting on the swing on the front porch keeping an eye on Coleman playing in the yard, I noticed the picturesque skyline filled with amazing cloudscapes. I grabbed my iPhone, changed the settings to muted black and white using the camera’s fusion mode I captured the view I was seeing .

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

Skywatch Friday

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion Camera

Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Enjoy the Outdoors. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Weekend Sky(Watch) Friday: March 28

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

Skywatch Friday

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Stay Warm. Take care of yourself and each other. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Weekend Sky(Watch) Friday: March 21

Even though it was cold, cloudy, and windy seeing a Dove shape within the clouds sent calmness and peace deep into my soul.

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

Skywatch Friday

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Stay Warm. Take care of yourself and each other. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Weekend Sky(Watch) Friday: March 07

This week our weather has been fickle, sorta topsy-turvy not knowing whether it wants to be warm or freezing or somewhere in between. It has been flip-flopping back and forth from one day to the next. I wish it’d just decide to be warm and stay that way. I’m tired of the freezing cold brisk winds and rainy days we’ve been experiencing.

Below demonstrates how our weather can be fickle in just a short time frame (one day).

It flip-flopped from rainy to warm & cloudy back to dark rain clouds with more rain on the way. It makes it hard to know when it’s warm enough for Coleman to play outside. On this day outside playing didn’t last long with the tempting rain clouds bearing down upon us.

Skywatch Friday

Weekend Sky

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Stay Warm. Take care of yourself and each other. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Weekend Sky: January 5 – Week 1

Beautiful Skies

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #253

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250 mm lens and Altura UV & Star Filter attachments

Location: South Fork Catawba River; Riverside Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Have a fabulous day. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Weekend Sky: 12.21/.22

From Haziness to Cloudy

The first half of the week our skies were nothing but hazy skies where we live. By Wednesday the haziness of dawn slowly disappeared as the day progressed. By mid-afternoon noon I was pleased to see the beautiful blue skies despite the various clouds scattering hereabouts.

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. Have a fantastic day. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 MM #23: Clouds in Monochrome

This week Brian from Bushboys World is the host for Monochrome Madness. His choice for the Monochrome Madness theme this week is Clouds.

Here are my contributions:

Let’s first take a look at a couple of image comparisons between an original color versus the converted black and white version of photo imageries of clouds.

The first three black and white photos in the left-hand column are from my archives and the other four phots are from my outlook in Apple iPhone’s Silverstone black and white feature of today’s cloudy skies.

Brian’s Monochrome Madness-Clouds

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Weekend Sky: 12.01

Our Thanksgiving Weekend Skies were full of clouds, mist, and rain. These were taken from our front porch safe from the rain 🌧️ and wind 💨.

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Old Town; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. Have a fantastic day. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Weekend Sky: Cloud Ripples and Sunset

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

God Bless. Have a funtastic rest of your week. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Wordless Wednesday: 07.10

California's Great America — ***California’s Great America***

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

Throwback Thursday

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35mm

Location: Santa Clara, California, USA

God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Weekend Sky #129 — 06.08

Hammad’s Weekend Sky #129

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Weekend Sky: 05.25/6

Fluffy “Cottonball” Clouds

Hammad’s Weekend Sky #128

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Weekend Sky: 05.04

Clouds ☁️ Moving Forward ⛈️

Friday Skies …

Moving Forward …

Across the Vast Blue Skies …

Moving Forward … Into Thunderstorms

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Thunderstorms All Weekend Long

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Our plans for the day are delayed … to move forward another day.

Hammad’s Weekend Sky #127

Becky’s Squares-Moving Forward

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Carriage House Lane; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Hope you’re having a dry pleasant weekend. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Weekend Sky: My 360°View

The Sky All around Me

The first shots I snapped turning slightly in each direction to capture what we saw from various angles. The last three were shot when Coleman and I took a short walk around the neighborhood.

Hammad’s Weekend Sky #121-03.10.24

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

Wonderful Cloud Formations

I was delighted to see the many layers of Stratospheric cloud formations among the beautiful blue skies.

A few hours later the skies were filled with massive grey thunderclouds with raindrops falling shortly afterwards.

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max using Main, Ultra Wide, and Telephoto Cameras.

Location: Backyard View; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.

2023 Weekend Sky: Storms a Rolling In – Part 2

Taken Sunday afternoon, 6 August 2023, on way to car before the rainstorms began pouring down from the thunderous sky.

Hammad Rais’s Weekend Sky

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.

Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.

Weekend Sky #104: 2023 Sunday June 11 @ Crowders Mountain

The Weekend Sky changed throughout the day as my Grandson, Coleman, and I were hiking 🥾. By the time we were finishing our hike around the Lake at Crowders Mountain State Park; the gray clouds started rolling across the sky and later the rains 🌧️ began pouring down upon us.